For decades, people have wanted to build something big and industrial on Sears Island - a.k.a. wahsumkik in the Penobscot language - in my hometown of Searsport. Gov. Angus King wanted to build a container port there. Gov. John Baldacci proposed a liquid natural gas terminal on the island. Most recently, Gov. Janet Mills announced plans to build an offs…
INTERVIEW | Julia Hiltonsmith: The island that fights back
Sears Island as a case study for Maine's fraught relationship with development
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